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Invisible Labor: The Latino Contribution to America
Maxwell007
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America was built with Latino hands, then those same hands were pushed out of the picture. That’s the trick. First they need you. Then they erase you. Mexican workers were recruited for farms, rail lines, mines, and wartime labor. Puerto Rican families helped keep cities alive. Dominican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Honduran, and Central American workers kept factories, kitchens, and service industries moving. The labor was never the problem. The problem was always visibility. Because the second Latino workers became too visible—too organized, too proud, too impossible to ignore—the narrative changed. Now suddenly we were “too many,” “too loud,” “too foreign.” But
